On 08/22/2012 05:10 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Matthew Garrett <mj...@srcf.ucam.org> wrote: > >> [...] >> >> Our power consumption is worse than under other operating >> systems is almost entirely because only one of our three GPU >> drivers implements any kind of useful power management. [...] > > ... and because our CPU frequency and C state selection logic is > doing pretty much the worst possible decisions (on x86 at > least). > > Regardless, you cannot possibly seriously suggest that because > there's even greater suckage elsewhere for some workloads we > should not even bother with improving the situation here. > > Anyway, I agree with Alan that actual numbers matter.
Sure. we'd better make ideas into code, and then let benchmarks and data speaking. > > Thanks, > > Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
